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...more than 1,000 computer companies large and small were showing off their wares, their floppy discs and disc drives, joy sticks and modems, to a mob of some 50,000 buyers, middlemen and assorted technology buffs. Look! Here is Hewlett-Packard's HP9000, on which you can sketch a new airplane, say, and immediately see the results in 3-D through holograph imaging; here is how the Votan can answer and act on a telephone call in the middle of the night from a salesman on the other side of the country; here is the Olivetti M20 that entertains...
...instructive to compare the newspaper diagrams of Clark's new heart with Brooks' operation. The pump looked moderately interesting, as did the hookup of the prosthesis to the atria, but the picture held none of the force of the scene in the Texas prison. One sketch showed clearly, in cartoon style, where Brooks' girlfriend was standing, the position of the chaplains, the precise spot where the catheters entered the arms. Of course, the dramatic content of the events was in inverse proportion to the excitement of the settings. In Clark's case, society asked...
...cockroaches.) The other principal actors--Hal Holbrook, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, and Adrienne Barbeau--fare little better, and the entire cast seems rather confused and uncomfortable with the material. The one mild surprise is King himself, who in his acting debut plays a doltish farmer in the "Jordy" sketch...
...ultimately, what makes The Battle of John and Yoko so appealing is the detailed portrait it paints of one of the most celebrated--and complicated--characters of our time. Because so many writers sketch Lennon from so many angles, you get a feeling of completeness and accuracy rare in most biographies of popular artists. Rolling Stone writers saw Lennon the musician, the radical and the husband/father. Lennon the film maker, the thinker and the Beatles. Their visions add up to present a man who created without compromise, without abandoning his convictions. The portrait shows how tragic it is that Lennon...
...Making it up" on a canvas eight feet square cannot be done outdoors. Laden with a 70-lb. pack of easel, paints, canvas and gear, Welliver trudges out in winter to find a scene and make an oil sketch. The large version is always a studio painting, and its fictions of spontaneity - of rapid-fire correspondence between the eye scanning a scene and the hand making its marks -take a month or more to achieve. But the paint looks direct and uncluttered; it seems to have been done alla prima, wet into wet, in a few hours. In fact...